Frédéric Côté-Boudreau

Frédéric Côté-Boudreau was a Ph.D. student in Philosophy at Queen’s University (2013-2019). His thesis “Inclusive Autonomy: A Theory of Freedom for Everyone” argued for a right to autonomy for nonhuman animals and persons with cognitive disabilities and touched upon adaptive preferences, domination and paternalism, relational theories of autonomy and the social model of disability. Frédéric has published, among other things, the entry “Capacitisme” in the encyclopedia La pensée végane. 50 regards sur la condition animale edited by Renan Larue (PUF, 2020) and regularly writes about animal issues for a nonacademic audience. Formerly active in the Festival végane de Montréal and Queen’s Animal Defence and co-founder of the Estivales de la question animale edition Québec, he now teaches philosophy at Collège Montmorency. Frédéric is a consultant to Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law, and Ethics (APPLE) on various projects, including the Animal Liberation/Rights Movement Archive Project.